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• rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  One bread costs 5 whole gold coins. Because obviously.

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  • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well, it’s one bread Michael! How much could it cost? Ten gold coins?

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    • Masamune@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• javiwhite@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Whilst an average film overall, the movie ‘In Time’ has an interesting concept for currency set in a near future sci fi dystopia.

  Humanity has cured aging, and everyone stops aging at 25. Then their clock starts; indicated by a tattoo like digital clock on their forearm. Everything is paid for with time taken off their clock, once it reaches 0, they immediately die. Jobs pay employees a time salary etc, and the rich horde and manipulate the time markets to concentrate their wealth, and keep the poor from achieving the immortality they horde.

  I enjoyed it, and I’m sure plenty others did, but there’s no denying that a rather large suspension of belief is required.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think it’s a clever metaphor for the disparity in living standards and the real value of human life in a corrupt marketplace.

    But the actual implementation of the story was a bit clumsy and heavy handed.

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  • jnod4@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We’re literally living that life and we’ve always lived it since the dawn of currency, fiat.

    How long you’re going to survive after you reach zero wealth left to your own devices, homeless on the streets? Until the first rough winter?

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  • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In Time is definitely one of my favorite movies. It has some great world building around this concept.

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• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m making a mars-themed luanti modpack (it’s FOSS and available here btw), and i intend to use water as the currency, if i ever get to trading.

  Water is a scarce and useful resource on Mars. That’s all it takes to make a meaningful currency out of it.

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  • EldenLord@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Expect a mod to change it to piss lol

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  • resting_parrot@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The problem with using water as currency is that it is heavy. It is not reasonable to carry around large amounts. You’ll need some kind of representational currency.

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You’ll need some kind of representational currency

      yep that’s exactly what i think would make sense in the real world. basically a paper currency backed by real water. one dollar represents 1 kg of water.

      it’s like the gold standard, just not backed by gold but by water.

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    • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Caves of Qud uses water as currency. I think it explains this by making all of its characters weirdo radiation freakazoids that can teleport and fly around and stuff.

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• rafoix@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What if money was just called hours?

  Difficult jobs are worth more hours than easy jobs and require more specialized skills. If the specific skill is not part of the repertoire then the job will be exceptionally difficult and/or impossible.

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  • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There were some experiments where currency was actually denominated in hours, usually as part of a co-op system where you were literally trading for hours of labour.

    I think the most famous one was in Ithaca, NY.

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    • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      would love to read more about this

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      But an hour waiting on an email shouldn’t be the same as an hour of heavy lifting

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  • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    www.themoviedb.org/movie/49530-in-time

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    • Odo@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      In the not-too-distant future

      You can’t start a sentence with that and not expect me to get distracted thinking of a certain theme song.

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    • Bosht@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Honestly a face of mine. Acting is solid and storyline is like a dystopian Robin Hood almost.

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    • ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is a good one to show people to get them thinking about class consciousness.

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  • Mika@piefed.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Can't do that because hours are gods.

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Be a medieval peasant.

  Harvest comes in

  Load 1,000 pounds of produce onto a mule

  Mule dies

  Throw mule and produce on shoulders

  Walk to market

  Set up stall

  Sign: “Apples - 1 gold piece”

  Sell a single apple

  Am now the wealthiest man in town

  Go across the street to buy a wool tunic

  Attempt to make change

  Merchant cannot make change for a single gold piece

  So he kills me and becomes wealthiest man in town

  Repeat this for every shop in town

  Literally one guy left in village

  Mongols show up

  Take gold piece

  Return to China

  China countries to be the wealthiest country on Earth for another century

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• Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If I made a sci-fi game I would just make the currency MWh. They handwave away so much science, why not have a watch sized device that can store insane amounts of power?

  Which makes me wonder, is there a physics limit to the density of energy? There has to be, anyone know what it’s called?

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  • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    […] why not have a watch sized device that can store insane amounts of power?

    Because Hiroshima was leveled by “only” 20 MWh (cost ranges from 120€ in northern Scandinavia to 1010€ in Greece) so having people carry energy wallets with enough to make more around day to day is like paying your groceries bill with C4 (which is perfectly save as long as there is no primary explosive).

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    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, but they will have a perfect safe containment device, and a way to transfer safely, just like they have FTL.

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    is there a physics limit to the density of energy

    the physics limit to the density of energy is literally a black hole. it compresses the maximum amount of mass (energy) into a space. but that’s technologically useless since you can’t extract the energy out of it on-demand.

    The densest ways of storing energy that are technologically useful are:

    • batteries (Na-Ion batteries: 0.2 kWh/kg)
    • oil/carbon-based fuels (bread: 5 kWh/kg)
    • uranium (pure uranium: 24 * 10^6 kWh/kg)

    There’s also speculative technologies like antimatter (24 * 10^9 kWh/kg) which aren’t available today.

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    • absentbird@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So one gram of antimatter could power a modern city for like three months? That’s wild.

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    • GraniteM@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The beauty of using uranium as currency is that if anyone hoards too much of it, the problem takes care of itself.

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    • brotundspiele@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There actually is a method that could be used to extract energy out of a black hole. Probably not something you’d build in a watch-sized device though.

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  • AEsheron@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Stellaris is a space 4x game that uses energy as a universal currency. The Endless Space games are also 4x games that use ancient nanomachines called Dust as currency.

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  • tallricefarmer@sopuli.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We have technological limits to the storage efficiencies of different types of batteries. Batteries defined as something that can store useable energy. If we are talking just energy, matter stores lots of energy, and you can look at the famous Einstein equation to play with numbers. I do know we have something like a matter density limit in black holes.

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  • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Matter, expressed in mass, so kilograms or tons.

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• carrylex@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is what I love about the Legend of Zelda games, it’s “rupee”, which comes from “ruby”:

  Rupee is likely derived from or a corruption of ruby, a valuable gemstone. As a result, Rupees were frequently misnamed early in the series, such as the name “Rupy” in the original The Legend of Zelda. In the German versions of The Legend of Zelda games, a Rupee is called a Rubin, which is German for ruby. Ironically, Red Rupees resemble rubies.

  They’re valuable gems of indeterminate size, not necessarily related to rubies or actual gems (could be glass or something), and have no direct comparison to any actual currency (unlike gold) but we can understand some amount of inherent value (better than credits). It’s unique to the game, and denominated as a single number.

  Some other ideas for units:

  • sovereigns - as long as the person in charge is a king
  • in-game term related to the region (like Euro is to Europe)
  • chips - could be metal, glass, gemstones, etc

  Keep it vague so people don’t lose immersion by comparing to realm world units, or not have any inherent wealth. That said, “credits” is better than “gold,” just a bit cliché.

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can also get weird with it. Brandon Sanderson likes to tie money to a world’s magic system so in the world where people have metal based magic it’s coins called clips and boxings, but in the world where hurricanes make gemstones glow with magic it’s spheres of glass with gems called chips, marks, and broams

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yup, and that’s partly where my suggestion of “chips” came from. The money term isn’t a huge deal, but just changing the name to something relevant in world is cool.

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  • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Could swear I’ve seen a setting where the currency was sovereigns, but there was no king. Literally “cash is king”.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I guess you don’t need a king, since sovereign refers to the government, but when it comes to currency, I’d assume “sovereign” is referring to the picture of the ruler on the currency. I don’t know many who call their chief executive/head of state a “sovereign”, but most would use that to describe a monarch.

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  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In reverend insanity the “money” was rocks that can be used as “mana potions.” Once someone becomes immortal they get infinite “mortal mana” tho so there is a seperate currency used by immortals.

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• flippinfreebird@lemmy.today ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No spacebucks?

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  • titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Spacebukz

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    • jonman364@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Spacebux

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• AllHailZorglub@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You gained Brouzouf.

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  • LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But are your legs OK?

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• aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Tell me you’ve never played a jrpg without telling me you’ve never played a jrpg

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  • ddplf@szmer.info ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    stupid comment

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    • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “tell me X without telling me X”

      Insufferably obnoxious too

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    • aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Imagine being mad at a meme comment. Would you have preferred “Jrpgs: Hold my beer”?

      Fr though there’s gil, rupees, bells, munny, zenny

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• GraniteM@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Down And Out in the Magic Kingdom, by Cory Doctorow:

  This future history book takes place in the 22nd century, mostly in Walt Disney World. Walt Disney World Disney World is run by rival adhocracies, each dedicated to providing the best experience to the park’s visitors and competing for the Whuffie the guests offer. In the post-scarcity world of the novel, Whuffie is a currency-like system that primarily measures the esteem of others, or in the case of extremely low Whuffie, their disdain.

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• alekwithak@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Game set in Pokemon. Currency is pokedollars.

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